272 SHOOTING-RIGHTS OF 



terloration of the rising generation. I 

 know places where the existence of scores 

 of such landowners (save the mark !) makes 

 preserving Impossible. The gentlemen's 

 houses stand empty, — for those who want a 

 country house like some shooting, — and 

 does this mean nothing prejudicial to the 

 community ? Ask the butcher, the baker, 

 and the farmer. Ask the poor ! 



That such rights are honestly useless to 

 the freeholder himself no one can deny. 

 What head of game can a man have on 

 an acre, two acres, five acres, ten acres ? 

 Will It ever be worth his while to pay 

 three ©ulneas for a irame certificate to 

 legally take his own ? Answer : No ; not 

 even Including other people's, which will 

 fairly {i.e. without feeding) stray through 

 the fence. That this right Is Injurious to 



